Part 6

Madnesse his sorrow, gout his cramp, may hee Make, by but thinking, who hath made him such: 10 And may he feele no touch Of conscience, but of fame, and bee Anguish'd, not that'twas sinne, but that'twas shee: In early and long scarcenesse may he rot, For land which had been his, if he had not 15 Himselfe incestuously an heire begot:

May he dreame Treason, and beleeve, that hee Meant to performe it, and confesse, and die, And no record tell why: His sonnes, which none of his may bee, 20 Inherite nothing but his infamie: Or may he so long Parasites have fed, That he would faine be theirs, whom he hath bred, And at the last be circumcis'd for bread:

The venom of all stepdames, gamsters gall, 25 What Tyrans, and their subjects interwish, What Plants, Mynes, Beasts, Foule, Fish, Can contribute, all ill which all Prophets, or Poets spake; And all which shall Be annex'd in schedules unto this by mee, 30 Fall on that man; For if it be a shee Nature before hand hath out-cursed mee.

[The Curse. _1633-69:_ A Curse. _or_ The Curse. _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Dirae. _P_, _Q_]

[2 curse] course _1669_]

[3 His only, and only his purse _1633-54_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC:_ Him, only for his purse _1669_, _Chambers:_ His one and his onely purse _P_]

[4 heart _1633-54 and MSS.:_ whore _1669 and Chambers_]

[5 And she yeeld then to _1633-54 and MSS.:_ And then yield unto _1669_, _Chambers_]

[8 getting, _Ed:_ getting _1633-69_

torne: _Ed:_ torne; _1633-54:_ torne. _1669_. _Compare_ 16 _and_ 24]

[9 cramp,] cramps, _1669_, _Chambers_, _and most MSS._]

[10 him _1633-54 and MSS.:_ them _1669_, _Chambers_]

[12 fame,] shame; _A18_, _A25_, _N_, _P_, _TC_]

[14-16 In early and long scarceness ... an heire begot: _1633_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F_ (_which gives alternate version in margin_), _S:_

Or may he for her vertue reverence One that hates him onely for impotence, And equall Traitors be she and his sense.

_1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _C_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TC_]

[18 Meant] Went _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[26 Tyrans, _1633-35:_ Tyrants, _1639:_ tyrants, _1650-69_]

[27 Mynes, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _JC_, _L74_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _Q_, _S_, _TC:_ Myne, _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_]

[28 ill _1669:_ ill, _1633-54_]

_The Message._

Send home my long strayd eyes to mee, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee; Yet since there they have learn'd such ill, Such forc'd fashions, And false passions, 5 That they be Made by thee Fit for no good sight, keep them still.

Send home my harmlesse heart againe, Which no unworthy thought could staine; 10 But if it be taught by thine To make jestings Of protestings, And crosse both Word and oath, 15 Keepe it, for then 'tis none of mine.

Yet send me back my heart and eyes, That I may know, and see thy lyes, And may laugh and joy, when thou Art in anguish 20 And dost languish For some one That will none, Or prove as false as thou art now.

[The Message. _1635-69:_ _no title_, _1633:_ Song. _or no title_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96:_ Sonnet. _P:_ Songes w^{ch} were made to _&c._ (_vid. sup._ _p._ 18) _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[2 thee; _Ed:_ thee, _1633-69_]

[3 But if they there _1669_, _S_]

[10 staine;] staine, _1633-69_]

[11 But _1635-69:_ Which _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _TC_]

[14 crosse, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ breake _1633-69_]

[16 Keep it still 'tis _1669_]

[19 And may laugh, when that Thou _D_, _H49_, _Lec_]

[24 art now.] dost now. _1669_]

_A nocturnall upon S._ Lucies _day,_

_Being the shortest day._

Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, _Lucies_, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes; The worlds whole sap is sunke: 5 The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the beds-feet, life is shrunke, Dead and enterr'd; yet all these seeme to laugh, Compar'd with mee, who am their Epitaph.

Study me then, you who shall lovers bee 10 At the next world, that is, at the next Spring: For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new Alchimie. For his art did expresse A quintessence even from nothingnesse, 15 From dull privations, and leane emptinesse: He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.

All others, from all things, draw all that's good, Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have; 20 I, by loves limbecke, am the grave Of all, that's nothing. Oft a flood Have wee two wept, and so Drownd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow To be two Chaosses, when we did show 25 Care to ought else; and often absences Withdrew our soules, and made us carcasses.

But I am by her death, (which word wrongs her) Of the first nothing, the Elixer grown; Were I a man, that I were one, 30 I needs must know; I should preferre, If I were any beast, Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest, And love; All, all some properties invest; If I an ordinary nothing were, 35 As shadow, a light, and body must be here.

But I am None; nor will my Sunne renew. You lovers, for whose sake, the lesser Sunne At this time to the Goat is runne To fetch new lust, and give it you, 40 Enjoy your summer all; Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall, Let mee prepare towards her, and let mee call This houre her Vigill, and her Eve, since this Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is. 45

[A nocturnal _&c._ _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[7 beds-feet,] beds-feet _1633-69_]

[12 every _1633_, _A18_, _N_, _O'F_ (_altered to_ a very), _TC:_ a very _1635-69_]

[16 emptinesse: _1719:_ emptinesse; _Chambers and Grolier:_ emptinesse _1633-54:_ emptinesse, _1669_. _See note_]

[20 have; _Ed:_ have, _1633-69_.]

[31 know;] know, _1633_]

[32 beast,] beast; _Grolier_]

[34 love; All, all _Ed:_ love, all, all _1633-69_

invest; _Ed:_ invest, _1633:_ invest _1635-69_]

[37 renew. _1633:_ renew, _1635-69_]

[41 all; _Ed:_ all, _1633-69 and Chambers, who places a full stop after_ festivall]

[44 Eve, _1650-69:_ eve, _1633-39_]

_Witchcraft by a picture._

I fixe mine eye on thine, and there Pitty my picture burning in thine eye, My picture drown'd in a transparent teare, When I looke lower I espie; Hadst thou the wicked skill 5 By pictures made and mard, to kill, How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will?

But now I have drunke thy sweet salt teares, And though thou poure more I'll depart; My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, 10 That I can be endamag'd by that art; Though thou retaine of mee One picture more, yet that will bee, Being in thine owne heart, from all malice free.

[Witchcraft _&c._ _1633-69_, _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ The Picture. _or_ Picture. _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96:_ A Songe. _B_]

[4 espie; _Ed:_ espie, _1633-69_]

[6 to kill, _Ed:_ to kill? _1633-39:_ to kill; _1650-69_]

[9 And though] Although _1669_ And though thou therefore poure more will depart; _B_, _H40_]

[10 vanish'd, vanish feares, _1633_, _A18_, _B_, _Cy_, _H40_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _S96_, _TC:_ vanished, vanish all feares _1635-54_, _O'F:_ vanish, vanish fears, _1669_]

[11 that] thy _JC_, _O'F_, _S96_]

[14 all] thy _B_, _H40_, _S96_]

_The Baite._

Come live with mee, and bee my love, And wee will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and christall brookes, With silken lines, and silver hookes.

There will the river whispering runne 5 Warm'd by thy eyes, more then the Sunne. And there the'inamor'd fish will stay, Begging themselves they may betray.

When thou wilt swimme in that live bath, Each fish, which every channell hath, 10 Will amorously to thee swimme, Gladder to catch thee, then thou him.

If thou, to be so seene, beest loath, By Sunne, or Moone, thou darknest both, And if my selfe have leave to see, 15 I need not their light, having thee.

Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legges, with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poore fish beset, With strangling snare, or windowie net: 20

Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out-wrest, Or curious traitors, sleavesilke flies Bewitch poore fishes wandring eyes.

For thee, thou needst no such deceit, 25 For thou thy selfe art thine owne bait; That fish, that is not catch'd thereby, Alas, is wiser farre then I.

[The Baite. _1635-69:_ _no title_, _1633:_ Song. _or no title_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _P_, _S96_, _Walton's_ Compleate Angler: _Fourth Day:_ _Chap. XII.:_ Songs that were made _&c._ (_vid. sup. p._ 18) _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[2 some new] all the _P_]

[3 brookes, _Ed:_ brookes: _1633-69_]

[5 whispering _1633:_ whispring _1635-69_]

[6 thy] thine _1669_, _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[7 inamor'd] enamelled _Walton_

stay] play _1669_]

[11 to] unto _JC_, _O'F_, _P:_ to see _N:_ Most amoroussly to thee will swim _Walton_]

[15 my selfe] mine eyes _Walton:_ my heart _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[18 with] which _1633_]

[20 snare,] snares, _Walton_

windowie] winding _1669_. _See note_]

[23 Or _1633-69:_ Let _Walton_

sleavesilke _1635:_ sleave silke _1639-69 and Walton:_ sleavesicke _1633_]

[24 To witch poor wandring fishes eyes. _Walton_]

[25 thou needst] there needs _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S96_]

[26 bait; _Ed:_ bait, _1633-69_]

[27 catch'd _1633-69:_ catch't _Walton:_ caught _P_]

[28 Is wiser far, alas _Walton_]

_The Apparition._

When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead, And that thou thinkst thee free From all solicitation from mee, Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, And thee, fain'd vestall, in worse armes shall see; 5 Then thy sicke taper will begin to winke, And he, whose thou art then, being tyr'd before, Will, if thou stirre, or pinch to wake him, thinke Thou call'st for more, And in false sleepe will from thee shrinke, 10 And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thou Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lye A veryer ghost then I; What I will say, I will not tell thee now, Lest that preserve thee'; and since my love is spent, 15 I'had rather thou shouldst painfully repent, Then by my threatnings rest still innocent.

[The Apparition. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ An Apparition. _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[2 that thou thinkst] thou shalt think _1669_]

[3 solicitation] solicitations _JC_, _O'F_]

[5 thee, ... vestall, _Ed:_ thee ... vestall _1633-39:_ thee ... Vestall _1650-69_]

[7 then] _1669 omits_]

[10 in false sleepe will from _1633_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _S:_ in false sleepe from _1635-54:_ in a false sleepe even from _1669:_ in a false sleepe from _A25_, _P:_ in a false sleepe will from _A18_, _N_, _TC_]

[13 I;] I, _1633, some copies_]

[17 rest still] keep thee _A25_, _Cy_, _JC_, _O'F_, _P_]

_The broken heart._

He is starke mad, who ever sayes, That he hath beene in love an houre, Yet not that love so soone decayes, But that it can tenne in lesse space devour; Who will beleeve mee, if I sweare 5 That I have had the plague a yeare? Who would not laugh at mee, if I should say, I saw a flaske of _powder burne a day_?

Ah, what a trifle is a heart, If once into loves hands it come! 10 All other griefes allow a part To other griefes, and aske themselves but some; They come to us, but us Love draws, Hee swallows us, and never chawes: By him, as by chain'd shot, whole rankes doe dye, 15 He is the tyran Pike, our hearts the Frye.

If 'twere not so, what did become Of my heart, when I first saw thee? I brought a heart into the roome, But from the roome, I carried none with mee: 20 If it had gone to thee, I know Mine would have taught thine heart to show More pitty unto mee: but Love, alas, At one first blow did shiver it as glasse.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, 25 Nor any place be empty quite, Therefore I thinke my breast hath all Those peeces still, though they be not unite; And now as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so 30 My ragges of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

[The broken heart. _1633-69:_ Broken Heart. _L74:_ Song. _or no title_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Elegie. _P_, _S96_]

[8 flaske _1633_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _Lec_, _O'F_ (_corrected from_ flash), _P_, _S:_ flash _1635-69_, _A18_, _H49_, _N_, _TC_]

[10 come! _Ed:_ come? _1633-69_]

[12 some; _Ed:_ some, _1633-69_]

[15 chain'd shot] chain-shott _A18_, _A25_, _N_, _TC_]

[16 tyran] Tyrant _1669_

our hearts] and we _1669_]

[17 did] could _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _C_, _L74_, _O'F_, _N_, _TC:_ would _B_, _Cy_, _M_, _S_]

[20 mee: _1650-69:_ mee; _1633-39_]

[23 alas,] alas _1633_]

[24 first] fierce _A18_, _B_, _N_, _TC_]

[30 hundred] thousand _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _L74_, _M_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC_]

_A Valediction: forbidding mourning._

As virtuous men passe mildly away, And whisper to their soules, to goe, Whilst some of their sad friends doe say, The breath goes now, and some say, no:

So let us melt, and make no noise, 5 No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, T'were prophanation of our joyes To tell the layetie our love.

Moving of th'earth brings harmes and feares, Men reckon what it did and meant, 10 But trepidation of the spheares, Though greater farre, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers love (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove 15 Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love, so much refin'd, That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care lesse, eyes, lips, and hands to misse. 20

Our two soules therefore, which are one, Though I must goe, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate.

If they be two, they are two so 25 As stiffe twin compasses are two, Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the'other doe.

And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth rome, 30 It leanes, and hearkens after it, And growes erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to mee, who must Like th'other foot, obliquely runne; Thy firmnes makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begunne. 35

[A Valediction: forbidding _&c._ _Ed:_ A Valediction forbidding _&c._ _1633-69:_ Valediction forbidding _&c._ _A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Valediction agaynst _&c._ _A25_, _C:_ A Valediction. _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec:_ Vpon the partinge from his Mistris. _O'F_, _S96:_ To his love upon his departure from her. _JC:_ Elegie. _L74_, _P:_ _also in Walton's_ Life of Donne (1675)]

[4 The breath goes now, _1633-54, and all the MSS.:_ Now his breath goes, _1669_, _Chambers_

no: _Ed:_ no. _1633-54:_ No; _1669_]

[30 the other] my other _Walton_]

[31 It] Thine _Walton_]

[32 that] mine _Walton_]

[34 runne; _Ed:_ runne. _1633-69_]

[35 circle] circles _1639-54_]

[36 makes me] me to _Walton_]

_The Extasie._

Where, like a pillow on a bed, A Pregnant banke swel'd up, to rest The violets reclining head, Sat we two, one anothers best. Our hands were firmely cimented 5 With a fast balme, which thence did spring, Our eye-beames twisted, and did thred Our eyes, upon one double string; So to'entergraft our hands, as yet Was all the meanes to make us one, 10 And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equall Armies, Fate Suspends uncertaine victorie, Our soules, (which to advance their state, 15 Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee. And whil'st our soules negotiate there, Wee like sepulchrall statues lay; All day, the same our postures were, And wee said nothing, all the day. 20 If any, so by love refin'd, That he soules language understood, And by good love were growen all minde, Within convenient distance stood, He (though he knew not which soule spake, 25 Because both meant, both spake the same) Might thence a new concoction take, And part farre purer then he came. This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, 30 Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules containe Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe, 35 And makes both one, each this and that. A single violet transplant, The strength, the colour, and the size, (All which before was poore, and scant,) Redoubles still, and multiplies. 40 When love, with one another so Interinanimates two soules, That abler soule, which thence doth flow, Defects of lonelinesse controules. Wee then, who are this new soule, know, 45 Of what we are compos'd, and made, For, th'Atomies of which we grow, Are soules, whom no change can invade. But O alas, so long, so farre Our bodies why doe wee forbeare? 50 They are ours, though they are not wee, Wee are The intelligences, they the spheare. We owe them thankes, because they thus, Did us, to us, at first convay, Yeelded their forces, sense, to us, 55 Nor are drosse to us, but allay. On man heavens influence workes not so, But that it first imprints the ayre, Soe soule into the soule may flow, Though it to body first repaire. 60 As our blood labours to beget Spirits, as like soules as it can, Because such fingers need to knit That subtile knot, which makes us man: So must pure lovers soules descend 65 T'affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies. To'our bodies turne wee then, that so Weake men on love reveal'd may looke; 70 Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke. And if some lover, such as wee, Have heard this dialogue of one, Let him still marke us, he shall see 75 Small change, when we'are to bodies gone.

[The Extasie. _1633-69:_ _do. or_ Extasie. _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_]

[3 reclining _1633-54:_ declining _1669_]

[4 best. _Ed:_ best; _1633-54_

Sate we on one anothers breasts. _1669_]

[6 With _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ By _1635-69_, _Chambers_]

[8 string; _Ed:_ string, _1633-69_]

[9 to'entergraft _1633_, _A18_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _TC:_ to engraft _1635-69_, _A25_, _JC_, _O'F_, _Chambers_]

[11 in _1633-69_, _P:_ on _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC_]

[15 their _1633 and most MSS.:_ our _1635-69_, _O'F_, _P_]

[18 lay; _Ed:_ lay, _1633-69_]

[25 knew _1635-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _TC:_ knowes _1633_, _D_, _Lec_]

[29 doth] do _1669_]

[31 sexe, _1669:_ sexe _1633-54_]

[42 Interinanimates _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _TC:_ Interanimates _1633-69_, _D_, _Lec_]

[44 loneliness] loveliness _1669_]

[46 made, _1633-39:_ made: _1650-69_]

[47 Atomies _1633-54:_ Atomes _1669_]

[48 are soules, _1633_, _1669:_ are soule, _1635-54_]

[51 though they are not _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ though not _1633-69_]

[52 spheare. _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ spheares. _1633-69_]

[55 forces, sense, _A18_, _A25_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ senses force _1633-69_]

[59 Soe _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _H40_, _JC_, _N_, _P_, _S_, _S96_, _TC:_ For _1633-69_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_]

[64 makes] make _1635-39_]

[72 his] the _1669_]

[76 gone. _1633_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _O'F_, _S_, _TC:_ growne. _1635-69_, _P_, _S96_]

_Loves Deitie._

I long to talke with some old lovers ghost, Who dyed before the god of Love was borne: I cannot thinke that hee, who then lov'd most, Sunke so low, as to love one which did scorne. But since this god produc'd a destinie, 5 And that vice-nature, custome, lets it be; I must love her, that loves not mee.

Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much, Nor he, in his young godhead practis'd it; But when an even flame two hearts did touch, 10 His office was indulgently to fit Actives to passives. Correspondencie Only his subject was; It cannot bee Love, till I love her, that loves mee.

But every moderne god will now extend 15 His vast prerogative, as far as Jove. To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlewe of the God of Love. Oh were wee wak'ned by this Tyrannie To ungod this child againe, it could not bee 20 I should love her, who loves not mee.

Rebell and Atheist too, why murmure I, As though I felt the worst that love could doe? Love might make me leave loving, or might trie A deeper plague, to make her love mee too, 25 Which, since she loves before, I'am loth to see; Falshood is worse then hate; and that must bee, If shee whom I love, should love mee.

[Loves Deitie. _1633-69_, _A18_, _A25_, _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _JC_, _L74_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD:_ Elegye. _P_]

[8 much, _1639-69:_ much: _1633:_ much? _1635_]

[9 it; _Ed:_ it. _1633-69_]

[13 subject] _Subject 1669_]